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15 Apr 2023, 4:47 pm by Richard Hunt
Longhini is far from alone in this enterprise; other names with multiple lawsuits include Renzo Barberi, Howard Caplan and Ryan Turizo. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 1:43 pm by Ilya Somin
[Economist Bryan Caplan explains how standard socialist complaints about free markets are similar to longstanding fan claims that Tolkien's Giant Eagles didn't do enough in the war against Sauron.] [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 3:27 pm by Ilya Somin
[Economist Bryan Caplan explains how cutting back on zoning and other restrictions could create millions of new jobs for workers - on top of other beneficial effects.] [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 12:55 pm by Ilya Somin
As Nowrasteh notes, a previous review of Jones' book by economist Bryan Caplan points out that it actually justifies vastly increasing immigration to the United States from a wide swathe of the world, including countries with some 50% of the world's population. [read post]
15 Nov 2022, 6:20 pm by Ilya Somin
Prominent libertarian scholars such as Bryan Caplan and Jason Brennan have shown that the vast majority of voters are both ignorant of basic facts about politics and government, and highly biased in their evaluation of what they do know…. [read post]
14 Nov 2022, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
Prominent libertarian scholars such as Bryan Caplan and Jason Brennan have shown that the vast majority of voters are both ignorant of basic facts about politics and government, and highly biased in their evaluation of what they do know (I have made a few contributions to this literature, myself). [read post]
19 Oct 2022, 1:17 pm by Kyle Hulehan
Skeptics, perhaps most famous among them economist Bryan Caplan of George Mason University, argue that the benefits of a college degree are mostly about “signaling,” not knowledge. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 1:44 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Bryan Caplan, author of the excellent book Open Borders, has a helpful post making the point in greater detail: I recently finished teaching my Immigration class at the University of Palermo. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 10:45 pm by Ilya Somin
In a recent guest post at Bryan Caplan's "Bet on It" blog, political philosopher Christopher Freiman takes issue with the non-domination rationale for socialism. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 1:27 pm by Ilya Somin
Economist Bryan Caplan points out several other ways in which current homeowners can benefit from housing deregulation, even if the price of their current homes goes down: 1. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 10:33 am by Ilya Somin
Later, the writings of scholars such as Bryan Caplan, Michael Clemens, and Joseph Carens, helped me see that international migration is an even more significant pathway to expanding human freedom and opportunity; not just one liberty among many, but one of the great issues of our time. [read post]
18 May 2022, 1:21 pm by Ilya Somin
The post Bryan Caplan on "Misinformation About Misinformation" appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 2:13 pm by Ilya Somin
There is a lot of truth to Bryan Caplan's critique of the education system along those lines. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 8:05 am by Keith E. Whittington
As part of its programming, the Institute sponsors public lectures, and in recent years it has hosted lectures by a range of speakers, including David Brooks, Glenn Loury, Alice Dreger, Michael Sandel, Bari Weiss, and Bryan Caplan. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
Meanwhile, the proposal has also been backed by economist Bryan Caplan (who suggests some improvements), Canadian political commentator Scott Gilmore (I discussed his ideas here), and David Frum, among others. [read post]
15 Feb 2022, 1:28 pm by Ilya Somin
And when truth-seeking isn't the goal, it is perfectly rational to be highly biased in your evaluation of information - a phenomenon economist Bryan Caplan dubbed "rational irrationality. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 1:02 pm by Ilya Somin
They instead often indulge ideological, partisan, and other biases - a phenomenon economist Bryan Caplan dubbed "rational irrationality. [read post]
3 Jan 2022, 10:12 am by Ilya Somin
" It includes excellent works by Joseph Carens, Bryan Caplan, Alex Nowrasteh and Ben Powell, David Miller, and Sarah Song. [read post]
10 Apr 2021, 12:57 pm by Ilya Somin
All of us who work on these issues owe a debt to Bryan Caplan for discovering this problem in the data, and bringing it to our attention. [read post]
2 Jan 2021, 1:12 pm by Ilya Somin
I summarize some of the relevant data in my book Democracy and Political Ignorance, and here is an earlier review by Bryan Caplan. [read post]